World's First Nazi-Jihadist Bites FBI Agents

In a story that has produced one of the more bizarre news headlines in recent memory ("Nazi Buff Turned Jihadi Allegedly Bites FBI Agents"), ABC News' Hanna Siegel reports that a man in New Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, bit two FBI agents who were trying to arrest him, drawing
blood. And it gets weirder. Twenty-one year-old Emerson Begolly is
also, apparently, both a neo-Nazi and a self-appointed jihadist.
It's not clear which of those hobbies got the FBI's attention as they
aren't revealing the criminal complaint. But here's Siegel's reporting
on what may well be the world's first Nazi-jihadist.

Begolly has
posted jihadist songs and poetry online under the alias Asadullah
Alshishani, including an original song on YouTube that pays tribute to
Osama Bin Laden. "Amir of the Ansar" includes the lyrics "You fight
AmeriKKKa/And terrorize the Jews/You slay the murtadeen/And blow up the
Hindus." According to the web site The Jawa Report,
Begolly's alter ego also posted a song that lauded the late Hamas
founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and boasted "When the Jew's blood reds my
knife/Then my life is free from strife."

On his MySpace account,
Begolly posted pictures of himself when younger dressed in a Nazi
uniform. A more recent picture shows him with a beard and a knit
skullcap. ... The FBI claimed that Begolly's father had introduced him
to Nazi beliefs and dressed him as a Nazi, and that Begolly's mother had
tried to have Begolly admitted for psychiatric care.

Begolly
also attended a pro-Palestinian rally at Pennsylvania State University
in 2009 where, according to the campus newspaper, he told people he was
Chechen. He is set to be released on bail, so take that under advisement
if you're planning on visiting New Bethlehem this weekend.

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